The online fuck market in the US is an oligopoly. One company owns the lion's share of it. From Fortune, February 2013:
So IAC owns Tinder, OKCupid, Match.com & HowAboutWe. Looks like Grouper is failing.
Who does that leave? Plenty Of Fish, Jdate, CoffeeMeetsBagel... not much.
I'm guessing Coffee Meets Bagel will be acquired within a year or two as well. I thought their execution was great, except that the form factor seemed to produce stratospheric flaking for me personally, worse than I'd seen in any other pickup channel. I'd guess it's because of the constant flow of new matches.
When you consider that girls on eHarmony and the Christian sites are not so DTF, plus many report that POF's talent is lacking, it's clear that IAC owns the vast majority of the online fuck market.
Does it matter that IAC owns the lion's share of the online fuck market? How would things be different if it weren't so oligopolistic?
- Right now, Barry Diller’s IAC IACI -0.48% controls 41% of the market, thanks in large part to its properties Match.com and OkCupid.com. eHarmony is next, with 23.5% of the market. In third place is Zoosk at 7.7%, followed by Spark Networks (owner of JDate, Christian Mingle, LDS Mingle, and more) at 4.9%.
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So IAC owns Tinder, OKCupid, Match.com & HowAboutWe. Looks like Grouper is failing.
Who does that leave? Plenty Of Fish, Jdate, CoffeeMeetsBagel... not much.
I'm guessing Coffee Meets Bagel will be acquired within a year or two as well. I thought their execution was great, except that the form factor seemed to produce stratospheric flaking for me personally, worse than I'd seen in any other pickup channel. I'd guess it's because of the constant flow of new matches.
When you consider that girls on eHarmony and the Christian sites are not so DTF, plus many report that POF's talent is lacking, it's clear that IAC owns the vast majority of the online fuck market.
Does it matter that IAC owns the lion's share of the online fuck market? How would things be different if it weren't so oligopolistic?